How to Use pharaonic in a Sentence

pharaonic

adjective

• That is why so many pharaonic works of art show tables piled high with food.
  — Salima Ikram, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017
• The tomb belonged to the 18th pharaonic dynasty when Amun was the most powerful deity.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• And its artistry would have done any Egyptian proud, with etchings of falcon heads, winged gods, and a head of pharaonic gravity.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2018
• Frange the monk lived alone inside an old pharaonic tomb close to the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor, but even the life of a hermit wasn’t devoid of distractions.
  — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
• Egyptian authorities said the incident was caused by strong winds that forced the balloon off its course above the city’s pharaonic temples and tombs.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2018
• In the 1800s, one of Egypt’s rulers pried stones off the pyramids to erect new mosques (though, as far as pharaonic plunder goes, European visitors were greedier).
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Its origin story begins with the birth of pharaonic culture itself.
  — National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2020
• The old-school Mafiosi are fading into the past, pale imitations of their pharaonic forefathers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• The 150 statues discovered were modeled after pharaonic gods -- including the protector of graves, Anubis; the god of creation of day, Nefertem; and the god of the sun and air, Amun.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 30 May 2022
• Their houses, inside the ancient pharaonic-era tombs, and later on top of them, were damaging precious heritage.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2017
• Here are some of the most magnificent monuments of pharaonic Egypt — and the ancient world generally.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2015
• The officials said the incident was caused by strong winds that forced the balloon, which was carrying 20 tourists, off its course above the ancient city, home to some of Egypt’s most remarkable pharaonic temples and tombs.
  — Haggag Salama, Time, 5 Jan. 2018
• The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry says the artifacts include parts of five coffins, two statues of cats, a depiction of a human head made of basalt, and a pharaonic mask made of wood.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2018
• French rule would lift Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire, out of tyranny and into prosperity, and modern France would adorn itself with pharaonic glory.
  — Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• The long era of pharaonic generals may persist for many more years before the system finally collapses.
  — James Traub, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• The world's oldest known cases of breast cancer and multiple myeloma have been discovered in the remains of mummies in the pharaonic necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in the Egyptian city of Aswan.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
• The pharaonic work being described meant, obviously, many jobs.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
• Pharaonic chariots and more than 400 young performers dressed in pharaonic costumes paraded along the avenue.
  — CNN, 26 Nov. 2021
• Archaeologists poured in, extra suitcases in hand, to delve into the country’s pharaonic past.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
• Archaeologists poured in, extra suitcases in hand, to delve into the country’s pharaonic past.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
• Taylor reached back to a vague anecdote from Manetho, the ancient Egyptian scholar of the post-pharaonic period who had originated the standard system of numbered dynasties.
  — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
• In southern Egypt and northern Sudan, many farmers still depend on the Coptic calendar, a variation of the ancient pharaonic calendar.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2019
• Associated with divinity, royalty and power, the winged sun-disk is a common symbol of the pharaonic era.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• An offense against common sense as well as morality, reparations would take from Bubba and give to Barack, never mind if the former is an insolvent methamphetamine addict or the latter a dweller in near-pharaonic splendor.
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 22 July 2019
• Only one firm is currently mining, but all of them are following in the tracks of pharaonic miners, inspired by one of the most remarkable documents that the ancient Egyptians left to posterity.
  — Peter Hessler, National Geographic, 25 July 2016
• His biography would likely be even more poignant, though, were he rendered human-size instead of as a pharaonic colossus (albeit childlike, in gray running shoes) who dwarfs spectators in a darkened room.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2021
• The media in both Egypt and Sudan have exacerbated the two nation’s differences, with sensational comments and some biting mockery that, on one occasion, touched on the size of Pharaonic pyramids in both countries.
  — Hassan Abdallah, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2017
• Teams of divers uncovered stone sphinxes, pharaonic statuary and figures of gods and rulers, including the three immense and imposing statues that here welcome visitors into the museum’s vast entrance hall.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Other scenes also depict a monkey — in pharaonic times, monkeys were commonly kept as domestic animals — picking fruit.
  — Time, 3 Feb. 2018
• Gioia never mentions that cross-cultural hotbed of female musical innovation, the pharaonic harem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019

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